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About Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
Ulrich Baer is University Professor at New York University where he teaches literature and photography, and writes frequently about photography, art, literature, and other subjects. He is also the host of the podcast “Think About It” and editorial director at Warbler Press. Twitter: @UliBaer; Intragram. Caroline Weber is a specialist of French literature, history, and culture. She is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Barnard College and Columbia University in New York City. Twitter: @CorklinedRoom. Instagram.
NBN Episodes hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber:
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December 30, 2021
The Proust Questionnaire 36
Haaz Sleiman (هاز سليمان) is a Lebanese actor who has appeared as Tarek in Tom McCarthy’s 2007 award-winning film The Visitor, for which he was nomina…
July 8, 2021
Proust Questionnaire 35
The Proust Questionnaire hosts individuals who make a difference in various ways. Meet Calvin D. Sun, M.D., an emergency room physician who's worked a…
March 12, 2021
Proust Questionnaire 34
Kasi Lemmons is an award-winning director, writer, actress and professor who has been a staple in Hollywood for nearly three decades. Her acclaimed 19…
January 28, 2021
Proust Questionnaire 33
Cécile David-Weill is a French American author who is born and based in New York. She published her first novel Crush (Grove Press, 1997) under the na…
December 30, 2020
Proust Questionnaire 32
Daniel Kehlmann is a German-language novelist and playwright of both Austrian and German nationality. His novel Die Vermessung der Welt (translated in…
December 11, 2020
Proust Questionnaire 31
Maurice Samuels is the author of several books: The Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France; Inventing the Israel…
November 25, 2020
Proust Questionnaire 30
Exploding flower arrangements, meticulously staged scenes of beautiful destruction, haunted landscapes, still lives brought to their sublime end as if…
November 18, 2020
Proust Questionnaire 29
Today's we're speaking to a married couple, both esteemed novelists. Elliot Ackerman is the author of the novels 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, …
November 2, 2020
Proust Questionnaire 28
Samantha Boardman, MD, is a psychiatrist and a Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry and Assistant Attending Psychiatrist at Weill-Cornell Medical College…
October 23, 2020
Proust Questionnaire 27
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October 22, 2020
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Miranda Penn Turin is a freelance photographer and director who has been specializing in portraiture, fashion and beauty for over thirty years. She wa…
October 22, 2020
Proust Questionnaire 26
Miranda Penn Turin is a freelance photographer and director who has been specializing in portraiture, fashion and beauty for over thirty years. She wa…
September 18, 2020
Proust Questionnaire 25
Jeremy O. Harris is an American actor and playwright, known for his plays Daddy and Slave Play. He was the winner of the 2018 Paula Vogel Playwriting …
August 31, 2020
Proust Questionnaire 24
What happens in museum when the crowds have gone? Christine Coulson's exquisite book, Metropolitan Stories, imagines the inner lives of the artworks …
August 21, 2020
Proust Questionnaire 23
Sameh Zoabi is a Palestinian filmmaker who was born and raised in Israel. His feature film, Tel Aviv on Fire, chronicles the making of a daytime soap …
August 18, 2020
Proust Questionnaire 22
Miriam Bridenne is the Deputy Director of Albertine Books, the French bookstore housed in the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York City…
August 14, 2020
Proust Questionnaire 21
Hugh Evans is an Australian humanitarian, co-founder of both The Oaktree Foundation and Global Citizen, a Global Poverty Project. At 14, Evans spent t…
August 11, 2020
Proust Questionnaire 20
Maira Kalman was born in Tel Aviv and moved to New York with her family at the age of four. She was raised in bucolic Riverdale, the Bronx. Maira ha…
August 7, 2020
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Deeply informed, passionately committed and always invested in the truth, Seph Rodney's writings about art and culture have earned him a broad followi…
August 4, 2020
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Etgar Keret is a globally celebrated author and filmmaker who exposes the absurdity of daily life in our modern world, and through a Kafkaesque lens r…
August 4, 2020
Proust Questionnaire 18
Anna is a French director and photographer who was born in Armenia and now lives in New York City. A trained actor and film director, in 1998 she publ…
July 28, 2020
Proust Questionnaire 16
Sarah McNally is the founder and owner of three windows into the world of letters in New York City: the McNally bookstores, renowned not only in NYC b…
July 24, 2020
Proust Questionnaire 15
Omar Victor Diop is a Senegalese photographer whose historical auto-portraits, where he places himself in settings and poses previously occupied by hi…